Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power. Courage without love is brutish. Abundance without moderation leads to over-indulgence and decay. Power without humility breeds arrogance and tyranny.
B.K.S. IYENGARThe beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
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It is through your body that you realize you are a spark of divinity.
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After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.
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Without education, confidence does not come.
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Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art.
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We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.
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Persistent practice alone is the key to yoga. As you take pains to learn, continue with devotion what you have learn.
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Learning is as much an art as teaching
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As a well cut diamond has many facets, each reflecting a different color of light, so does the word yoga, each facet reflecting a different shade of meaning and revealing different aspects of the entire range of human endeavor to win inner peace and happiness.
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
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Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.
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Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.
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Savasana is being without was, being without will be. It is being without anyone who is.
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